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Feed Validator

Submitted by iay
on September 20, 2004 - 22:56

The aggregator I use at the moment (RssReader) is pretty strict. That’s as it
should be: it’s definitely the Way of XML and to a certain extent the Web in
general is taking up that approach with the move towards
web standards. Recently I’ve hit
several blogs whose feeds have been rejected by RssReader for various reasons:
even, in one case, just flat invalid XML caused by a malformed CDATA
section.

When RssReader sees an invalid feed, it gives you a link to a feed validator put together by Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby. There you can see exactly what went wrong, in context, and get some help in fixing it. Everyone should run this on their own feeds once in a while, in the same way that they should be running the W3C validators on their web pages and CSS.